The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.
The rain feels good against my face, Sam. It feels like tears. Let me stay a while longer, I pray you. It has been a long time since last I wept.
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
The night is dark and full of terrors, and so are dreams.
The longer he lived, the more Tyrion realized that nothing was simple and little was true.
The king eats, Robert had said, and the Hand takes the shit. How he had laughed. Yet he had gotten it wrong. The king dies, Ned Stark thought, and the Hand is buried.
The gold of a lowland lord is as worthless as a half man's promises'' Gunthor said.''Half a man I may be'' Tyrion said. ''Yet I have the courage to face my enemies. What do the Stone Crows do, but hid...
The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.
The dungeons are windowless. One hour is much like another down there, and for me, all hours are midnight.
The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends, Ser Jorah told her. It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in p...
The cat who wants his bowl of cream must know when to purr and when to show his claws - Ser Kyle, the Cat of Misty Moor
The boys were going to a place that none had ever been before, to serve an order that had been the enemy of their kith and kin for thousands of years, yet Jon saw no tears, heard no wailing mothers. T...
The apples stewed with prunes are excellent, except for the prunes, I won't eat prunes myself. Well, there was one time when Hobb chopped them up with chesnuts and carrots and hid them in a hen. Never...
The Lord of Casterly Rock made such an impressive figure that it was a shock when his destrier dropped a load of dung right at the base of the throne.
The Iron Throne is mine by rights. All those who deny that are my foes.The whole of the realm denies it, brother, said Renley. Old men deny it with their death rattle, and unborn children deny it in t...
The Castle can be rebuilt, in time. It's not the walls that make a lord, it's the man. - Stannis Baratheon
The Beauty raised her eyes, the only part of her that was truly beautiful.
That's pretty. He remembered Sansa telling him once that he should say that whenever a lady told him her name.
Surprisingly, Stannis smiled at that. You’re bold enough to be a Stark. Yes, I should have come sooner. If not for my Hand, I might not have come at all. Lord Seaworth is a man of humble birth, but he...
Stone, I must be stone, I must be Casterly Rock, hard and unmovable.